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so let's talk about guantanamo. the military commissions are dogged today by the same issues that hang as a cloud over them from their beginning. skresy, including skresy about the use of torture, and ledgement si about the charges that have been brought in the commissions. ledgement si questions that would never arise in federal court where the crimes that have been charged are legitimate federal crimes, but do arise when you are talking about charging them as war crimes. so a couple of the issues that are going to arise over the course of this week are how secret -- how skresy rules are prevent says defense lawyers from doing their job from being able to communicate with each other and with their clients, and whether or not the judge will grant a defense request to preserve the cia black sites at which the defendants were tortured overseas. the government says it's not necessary. the reasons the government thinks that's not necessary are secret. they're claiming it's classified, and it's withheld from the public.
so let's talk about guantanamo. the military commissions are dogged today by the same issues that hang as a cloud over them from their beginning. skresy, including skresy about the use of torture, and ledgement si about the charges that have been brought in the commissions. ledgement si questions that would never arise in federal court where the crimes that have been charged are legitimate federal crimes, but do arise when you are talking about charging them as war crimes. so a couple of the...
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they consider what is happening at guantanamo illegal. >>80 of them have been cleared for release and they have been unable to find anywhere to send them and that's unconscionable. these people need to go to somewhere where they can begin their lives again, the remaining people at guantanamo deserve to be tried. >> friday marked the 11th anniversary of the creation of guantanamo bay prison. >>> lance armstrong says he's ready to speak about doping allegations against him in his upcoming interview with oprah winfrey. the cyclist is taping the interview tomorrow and says he's ready to speak candidly. armstrong who is strongly denied the doping charges for years, was stripped of his seven tour de france titles a few months ago after the u.s. anti-doping agency released a detailed report. the interview with oprah is scheduled to air this thursday. >>> and just ahead, the stuff that left people a little puzzled as they rode public transportation in san francisco today. we'll explain. >>> here's a bit from president bill clinton at the award show tonight comparing "lincoln" to his experienc
they consider what is happening at guantanamo illegal. >>80 of them have been cleared for release and they have been unable to find anywhere to send them and that's unconscionable. these people need to go to somewhere where they can begin their lives again, the remaining people at guantanamo deserve to be tried. >> friday marked the 11th anniversary of the creation of guantanamo bay prison. >>> lance armstrong says he's ready to speak about doping allegations against him in...
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parallel rallies for guantanamo's closure israel the chicago, dallas, detroit, los angeles, miami, and london. 166 men remain locked up at the prison even though 86 of them have been cleared for release. a prominent immigrant rights activist has spoken out after her mother and brother were detained in a raid by federal immigration agents at their phoenix home. erika andiola, who has played a leading role in the undocumented youth movement, urged an end to the rates in a tearful recording. >> we need to do something. we need to stop separating families. this is happening to me, happening to families everywhere. [indiscernible] i need everybody to stop pretending like nothing is wrong, stop pretending that we're living normal lives because we're not. >> eric andiola's mother and brother were released on friday following a national outcry by activist groups. a spokesperson for immigration and customs enforcement has denied accusations the family was targeted for her activism. those are some of the headlines. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goo
parallel rallies for guantanamo's closure israel the chicago, dallas, detroit, los angeles, miami, and london. 166 men remain locked up at the prison even though 86 of them have been cleared for release. a prominent immigrant rights activist has spoken out after her mother and brother were detained in a raid by federal immigration agents at their phoenix home. erika andiola, who has played a leading role in the undocumented youth movement, urged an end to the rates in a tearful recording....
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if he oversteps them, for example, by purporting to bring prisoners from guantanamo when congress said he may not and he may not use federal funds to do that, i would suggest that that would present a case that could go to court and that could be stopped. >> sean: why couldn't it be-- couldn't get the dream act passed through congress and does it through executive fiat. why doesn't at that bother you? because that does not seem to respect the co-equal branches. >> it bothers me. it it doesn't bother me in the sense that i think you could make a court case out of it. not everything that bothers me is the subject of litigation. >> sean: well. >> if it were the courts would be very busy. >> sean: it seems like an abuse of power. >> it is. >> sean: all right. we're kind of like-- >> it's a. >> sean: perpendicular-- >> abuse of power, all right, thank you. >> sean: appreciate your insights and that's all the time we have this evening. let not your heart be troubled. greta is next on the record. take it away. >> tonight, using children as weapons? are both sides using children as political p
if he oversteps them, for example, by purporting to bring prisoners from guantanamo when congress said he may not and he may not use federal funds to do that, i would suggest that that would present a case that could go to court and that could be stopped. >> sean: why couldn't it be-- couldn't get the dream act passed through congress and does it through executive fiat. why doesn't at that bother you? because that does not seem to respect the co-equal branches. >> it bothers me. it...
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, and because he did not reopen the secret cia prisons, and because he has been trying to shut down guantanamo, even though he has not been able to, because even if the idea of american troops flying covertly into a supposed allied country and killing somebody on the ground there and taking his body away with them when they left, even though that might not appeal to most civil libertarian minded americans, the fact that the dead dude in question for that particular scenario for us as a country was osama bin laden has pretty much neutered any concerns about how exactly that went down. because of all those things, the big picture is that the most controversial national security elements of this administration are two. the first one is using drone strikes to kill people not in war zones. the controversial expansion of drone power so that it is used frequently in nonwar zones to kill people who aren't on any active battlefield after a kill list process that the white house describes very much like due process, but nobody else would ever describe as due process that is one of the two most controver
, and because he did not reopen the secret cia prisons, and because he has been trying to shut down guantanamo, even though he has not been able to, because even if the idea of american troops flying covertly into a supposed allied country and killing somebody on the ground there and taking his body away with them when they left, even though that might not appeal to most civil libertarian minded americans, the fact that the dead dude in question for that particular scenario for us as a country...
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guantanamo still open. disaster, tragedy. ft. hood, tucson. >> our hearts are broken by their sudden passing. >> reporter: colorado, newtown. >> for those of us who remain, let us find the strength to carry on and make our country worthy of their memory. >> reporter: fiscal debate, fiscal discord, fiscal destiny. sports teams, sports teams, sports teams. >> now, where were we? >> reporter: we were here, j
guantanamo still open. disaster, tragedy. ft. hood, tucson. >> our hearts are broken by their sudden passing. >> reporter: colorado, newtown. >> for those of us who remain, let us find the strength to carry on and make our country worthy of their memory. >> reporter: fiscal debate, fiscal discord, fiscal destiny. sports teams, sports teams, sports teams. >> now, where were we? >> reporter: we were here, j
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. >>> five alleged 9/11 plotters are set to appear in a courtroom at guantanamo bay today, as four days of preliminary hearings begin. among the defendants expected to be in court is the alleged master mind of 9/11, khalid sheikh muhammad. and two dozen motion also be argued. all the defendants are facing the death penalty. >>> a fascinating development in the case of jonbenet ramsey. the case remains unsolved and now reports say a grand jury had voted to indict john and patsy ramsey. but the district attorney refused to sign the indictment, believing he could not prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt. an attorney for john ramsey says indicting him would have been a gross miscarriage of justice. >> this case was so huge back then. fascinating to learn that both parents were indicted. the legal question is, did the d.a. have a legal obligation to sign it under colorado law? because some analysts are saying he should have signed it and moved to dismiss the charges in open court. >> that's remarkable. i don't think i've ever heard of that. typically, what d.a.'s want to do is they want
. >>> five alleged 9/11 plotters are set to appear in a courtroom at guantanamo bay today, as four days of preliminary hearings begin. among the defendants expected to be in court is the alleged master mind of 9/11, khalid sheikh muhammad. and two dozen motion also be argued. all the defendants are facing the death penalty. >>> a fascinating development in the case of jonbenet ramsey. the case remains unsolved and now reports say a grand jury had voted to indict john and patsy...
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. >> his order to close the detention facility at guantanamo bay, within one year. >> is there a separate executive order, greg, with respect to how we are going to dispose of the detainees? is that ready? >> gitmo, as it's known, remains open, almost four years to the day after that signing. [clanging bell] >> as he said on the campaign trail in 2008 and 2012, the economy was his job one. >> a bill is passed. >> he had great hopes for his stimulus bill, which squeaked through congress in february 2009, with just three republicans in the senate and none in the house voting for. >> it the most sweeping economic recovery package in our history. i hope this investment will ignite our imagination once more. >> one month later, he was calling for the bailout of general motors and chrysler to the tune of $62 billion. >> we will not let our auto industry simply vanish. >> critics called it a waste and questioned the logic of the government taking an ownership share in private economies. but supporters say it saved the economy from really tanking and called the bailout a huge success. >> clearing
. >> his order to close the detention facility at guantanamo bay, within one year. >> is there a separate executive order, greg, with respect to how we are going to dispose of the detainees? is that ready? >> gitmo, as it's known, remains open, almost four years to the day after that signing. [clanging bell] >> as he said on the campaign trail in 2008 and 2012, the economy was his job one. >> a bill is passed. >> he had great hopes for his stimulus bill,...
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he felt the torture scenes inflated the abuses at guantanamo and abu graib with what went down at the cia black sites. there have been other criticisms. kathryn big low and mark bull, her screenwriter and a journalist himself stand by the reporting. >> any politics, her own politics? some republicans coming out and saying it's opposed to show this in a better light or show this. she's not endorsing but she's trying to make some kind of a political statement about torture and the way we went about things, the u.s. goes about its business. did she say any of her personal politics creep into this movie at all? >> she calls herself a pacifist. she says that torture is reprehensible. she has a very matter of fact dispassionate film making style. she doesn't make message movies. she's not going to underline or italicize. i think she leaves a lot of space for the viewer to make up her own mind. i think that space is what has allowed so much controversy to leak into the frame. i mean, every film is in the eye of the beholder. but this film is really in the eye of the beholder. >> you're telli
he felt the torture scenes inflated the abuses at guantanamo and abu graib with what went down at the cia black sites. there have been other criticisms. kathryn big low and mark bull, her screenwriter and a journalist himself stand by the reporting. >> any politics, her own politics? some republicans coming out and saying it's opposed to show this in a better light or show this. she's not endorsing but she's trying to make some kind of a political statement about torture and the way we...
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. >>> protestors plan to mark the 11th anniversary of the guantanamo bay detention camp. they plan to read the names of the 166 prisoners being held at that prison. some people people are also planning to wear orange jump suits. similar events will be held in washington, d.c. and outside the cia headquarters in very. >>> vallejo residents demanded more credibility after a series of officer involved shootings. the meeting comes after ten officer involved shootings. they are looking to improve steps with the community. >> it creates angst in the community. i think this is an opportunity to open that dialogue to keep the communication going and explain what the procedures are. how we handle the investigations. >> yesterday's meeting was held in the same neighborhood where march row romero was shot and killed in his car. members of his family attended that meeting. >>> alameda county sheriffs deputies are continuing to search for an inmate that escaped from custody on friday. 31-year-old anthony how's quince managed to slip out of his restraints while he was being transported
. >>> protestors plan to mark the 11th anniversary of the guantanamo bay detention camp. they plan to read the names of the 166 prisoners being held at that prison. some people people are also planning to wear orange jump suits. similar events will be held in washington, d.c. and outside the cia headquarters in very. >>> vallejo residents demanded more credibility after a series of officer involved shootings. the meeting comes after ten officer involved shootings. they are...
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. >> alisyn: one of the other things, the post gave him at least a failing grade on, guantanamo bay. he promised from the get-go he'd close guantanamo bay and then as president barack obama was not able to close it, he realized again, upon becoming the president, that you have to put people somewhere, terrorists somewhere and nobody wants them in their back yard and unable to fulfill that. >> and that dove-tailed with what eric holder want today do, bring the worst of the worst guys master-minded these, blue them to new york city, where they flew into buildings and they did not happen. and there was outcry from democrats, and mr. president-- >> and thought the president could go better on unemployment. go below 8%, 7.9%, but still listed as a fail because a lot of times, and most of the first three and a half years, four years, it was over 8% and it was as high as 10. >> steve: remember, the reason-- there is the unemployment. it go up and doesn't show her per se, but it was over 10%, the highest number we've got there 9.9. the reason it's important, because the president and the pre
. >> alisyn: one of the other things, the post gave him at least a failing grade on, guantanamo bay. he promised from the get-go he'd close guantanamo bay and then as president barack obama was not able to close it, he realized again, upon becoming the president, that you have to put people somewhere, terrorists somewhere and nobody wants them in their back yard and unable to fulfill that. >> and that dove-tailed with what eric holder want today do, bring the worst of the worst guys...
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and guantanamo, and a lot of the interrogation techniques and the drones and all that stuff. that was a pretty good presidency in hindsight i guess, wasn't it? >> ah, going to be a hell of a lot more hindsight than we got now. the truth of the matter was, that that was political cowardice. on the part of both the democrats and the republicans. everybody's going to be terrified of reagan taxes on middle-class americans. this is something joe and i, oddly enough, agree on. >> i'm kind of needling you on that, howard. you're right. how -- that base is gone now? suddenly that's gone. we'll never now -- that's off the table now forever? >> yeah. >> that's really scary. >> it's a big mistake. because you can't get enough money out of rich people in order to balance the budget. >> as much as you'd like to. as much as you and your friends would like to, you can't. >> a lot of people wish that were true. i think this is a big mistake. you cannot deal with the deficit -- look, one thing i think all we all agree on is the deficit does matter. >> yeah. >> unlike what dick cheney said or
and guantanamo, and a lot of the interrogation techniques and the drones and all that stuff. that was a pretty good presidency in hindsight i guess, wasn't it? >> ah, going to be a hell of a lot more hindsight than we got now. the truth of the matter was, that that was political cowardice. on the part of both the democrats and the republicans. everybody's going to be terrified of reagan taxes on middle-class americans. this is something joe and i, oddly enough, agree on. >> i'm kind...
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that was part of the promise he was going to make to shut down guantanamo, to end enhanced interrogation . say that's a good decision on his part and he realizes as commander-in-chief what he has to do. it was his first order, actually in office. a lot of people forget that. as you look at the former president, bill clinton and the secretary of state, looking on, we will see a lot of the dignitaries walking down and being seated. looking back over all of the inaugurations you have covered, what stands out? what you think we should be looking for? >> the first thing that stands out in my mind is watching the coverage that we have seen from previous inaugural celebrations. what an extraordinary idea to move it from the east front of the capitol that overlooks a parking lot, where this crowd really wouldn't fit for years ago, now we have this magnificent view of the mall. it is almost worth watching the coverage just to see these extraordinary shots which you don't see all the time of the experience of beauty of the national mall and the capital once all dressed up in its ceremonial garb wi
that was part of the promise he was going to make to shut down guantanamo, to end enhanced interrogation . say that's a good decision on his part and he realizes as commander-in-chief what he has to do. it was his first order, actually in office. a lot of people forget that. as you look at the former president, bill clinton and the secretary of state, looking on, we will see a lot of the dignitaries walking down and being seated. looking back over all of the inaugurations you have covered, what...
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guest: closing guantanamo bay is interesting because even though he had support from his party in both houses of congress, that was the one he was not able to do. caller: i would ask your guest to address mr. obama's promise which drew in the young voters that he was going to be great unifier. i would contend he has deliberately set out to polarize the country and that 51% of americans voted for him but that the other 49% of americans that voted for him feel like he is sticking his tongue out at us and giving us the finger. i feel we are more polarized than we were and i see that as a promise greatly broken. guest: in fact, there is a promise to the fact that we do have the promise broken. we represented by his promise to bring both parties together to pass an agenda. as you say, there has not been success at that. there is a very robust debate about who is to blame but in terms of actions -- i have not seen him stick out his tongue or flipping the bird at anyone but i can say event this is definitely a very polarized place. that is a promise broken. host: here is a tweet - guest: i th
guest: closing guantanamo bay is interesting because even though he had support from his party in both houses of congress, that was the one he was not able to do. caller: i would ask your guest to address mr. obama's promise which drew in the young voters that he was going to be great unifier. i would contend he has deliberately set out to polarize the country and that 51% of americans voted for him but that the other 49% of americans that voted for him feel like he is sticking his tongue out...
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this president, obviously, famously signing an executive order to try to close guantanamo, which now at the start of his second term has not happened. interestingly, though, this president taking over for the start of the second term, his presidency is a work in progress, and so the long last raft of executive actions that he signed substantively were in between the election and today with those executive action that is he signed related to reform concerning gun violence. >> we did touch on the foreign relations aspect of it, both chris and chris were talking about. we're also entering into a new age of some beg decision in foreign policy because this country right now is starting to get some adversaries around the world because of our drone policy. that was not the situation four years ago. so this is -- our foreign policy is going to be judged on just how aggressive we get with that, and there's a growing concern in the community across the country about the drone attacks. just how many innocent people are we killing? there's been concerted conversation about we have to reel this i
this president, obviously, famously signing an executive order to try to close guantanamo, which now at the start of his second term has not happened. interestingly, though, this president taking over for the start of the second term, his presidency is a work in progress, and so the long last raft of executive actions that he signed substantively were in between the election and today with those executive action that is he signed related to reform concerning gun violence. >> we did touch...
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guantanamo still open. disaster, tragedy. ft. hood, tucson. >> our hearts are broken by their sudden passing. >> reporter: colorado, newtown. >> for those of us who remain, let us find the strength to carry on and make our country worthy of their memory. >> reporter: fiscal debate, fiscal discord, fiscal destiny. sports teams, sports teams, sports teams. >> now, where were we? >> reporter: we were here, just about to start again. >> i, barack hussein obama, do solemnly swear. >> those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look. >> our challenges are great, but our will is greater. >> there is nothing wrong with america that cannot be cured by what is right with america. >> the united states will not ignore your oppression or excuse your oppressors. >> all are equal. all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness. >>> the presidential inauguration is getting under way right here on the capitol, and we have a front row seat. >> here on the national mal
guantanamo still open. disaster, tragedy. ft. hood, tucson. >> our hearts are broken by their sudden passing. >> reporter: colorado, newtown. >> for those of us who remain, let us find the strength to carry on and make our country worthy of their memory. >> reporter: fiscal debate, fiscal discord, fiscal destiny. sports teams, sports teams, sports teams. >> now, where were we? >> reporter: we were here, just about to start again. >> i, barack hussein...